[WEB4LIB] Re: text size in IE 5+

[Kevin W. Bishop]

I'd like to thank Stef Morrill for suggesting a fix to the problem that, in 
my case, worked.  In short, de-selecting "Use Microsoft's viewer" for the 
Message Window properties in Eudora's Toolbox did the trick.

Here's the reply:

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I don't know if this is exactly the same problem, but...

We were seeing this problem with some of our staff machines with Eudora 5.1 
on them.  If Eudora was set to use the Microsoft viewer, IE would go back 
to using the smaller font every time the browser was launched, no matter 
what the font was set to before.  Once the Microsoft viewer was turned off, 
everything was dandy.  You can also add this line to the eudora.ini, if you 
want to continue to use Microsoft viewer:

SeparateMSHTMLSettings=1
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-kb


At 10:44 AM 2/2/2002 -0800, Rachel Singer Gordon wrote:
>This happens on my home machine and on a number of them at work -- IE
>5.5 and Win98SE. A second window will always launch with the
>"smaller" font if I am loading another program at the same time or
>occasionally if something intensive (java, whatever) is still loading
>in the first IE window when I hit ^N. I just added the text size
>button to the toolbar so that it's easily changed back.
>
>- Rachel
>
> >>Not only does (just mine?) IE not remember which font size I
> >specified
> >>during its last session, it doesn't seem to remember from one
> >instance to
> >>the next.
> >
> >>This morning I launched the browser, it loaded my home page in
> >"medium."  A
> >>new window (Ctrl N) loaded the same page in "smaller".  ??
> >
> >That's weird.  My first thought was something like the mandatory
> >profiles
> >suggested by others, but this sounds more like some other software
> >is messing
> >with your settings.
> >
> >The only thing I can think of is to wipe a machine and only install
> >IE 5 or 6
> >and whatever drivers you need for basic functionality.  (I had to do
> >this
> >during a recent battle with Norton AntiVirus 2002 and flat-screen
> >Gateways with
> >Radeon cards.)  Does IE default to Medium?  Does this change at some
> >point?
> >
> >If that doesn't work, perhaps those having the problem should
> >compare specs and
> >see what they have in common.
>
>---
>Rachel Singer Gordon / rsinger at linc.lib.il.us
>http://www.franklinparklibrary.org
>http://www.lisjobs.com
>---

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Kevin W. Bishop
Communication & Collaboration Technologies
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
<bishopk at rpi.edu> | <http://www.rpi.edu/rpinfo/>